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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green GenerationRome's genial new book . . . brings to life another era. --Nicholas Lemann, The New YorkerThe first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows...
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Doing NothingCouch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of hardworking respectability. Whenever the world of labor changes...
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade CenterSelected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center...
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Phantom Pain: North Carolina's Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate VeteransAmputations constituted roughly 75 percent of all operations performed during the Civil War. This pioneering study examines North Carolina's program to supply and fit its Confederate amputees with artificial arms and legs. Author: Ansley Herring WegnerPublisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & HistoryPublished: 01/01/2004Pages:...
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Helping Children of Troubled Parents & Monica Plum's Horrid Problem: SetThis practical guidebook, with a beautifully-illustrated storybook, enables teachers, parents and professionals to help children aged 4-12 connect with unresolved feelings affecting their behaviour.This is a guide book to help children who suffer the effects of: fFamily breakdown, separation and divorce, and witnessing parents...
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The Shi'is of Saudi ArabiaFouad Ibrahim traces the evolution of Shi'ite opposition in Saudi Arabia since the 1979 Shi'ite uprisings, paying particular attention to the reform movement, which has succeeded in bringing issues of political and individual liberty to worldwide attention. Fouad Ibrahim is an editor of Saudi...
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An Injury to All: The Decline of American UnionismOver the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO's conservative ideology of "business unionism" effectively...
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Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of FascismPoulantzas's book is the first major Marxist study of German and Italian fascism to appear since the Second World War. It carefully distinguishes between fascism as a mass movement before the seizure of power and fascism as an entrenched machinery of dictatorship. It compares...
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Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left ReviewRaymond Williams has made a central contribution to the culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. Politics and Letters is a volume of interviews with Williams, conducted by members of the New Left Review editorial committee, that is designed to bring into clear...
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Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism'There is no socialism after liberation, socialism is the process through which liberation is won.' Each of the essays in Communities of Resistance acts as a critical reaffirmation of socialist politics as the context for questions of race and resistance. The left itself is...
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After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of SocialismThe fall of Communism has been an epoch-making event. The distinguished contributors to After the Fall explain to us the meaning of Communism's meteoric trajectory - and explore the rational grounds for socialist endeavour and commitment in a world which remains dangerous and divided....
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Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, CommunityThe themes of citizenship and community are today at the center of a fierce debate as both left and right try to mobilize them for their cause. For the left such notions are crucial in all the current attempts to redefine political struggle through...
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Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 4: The German Home Front in World War II: A Documentary ReaderVolume 4 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary is the most substantial study of the German home front in World War II available in English. It illuminates the nature of Nazism and the regime it established by documenting politics and life in...
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Food and Urbanism: The Convivial City and a Sustainable FutureCities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities....
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A European Memory?: Contested Histories and Politics of RemembranceAn examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe--with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences--was overwhelmingly turned down by...
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Phantom AfricaOne of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal--by turns melodramatic, self-deprecating, ecstatic, and morose--as well as an exhaustively detailed account...
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The Leopard and the Fox: A Pakistani TragedyThe BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected prime minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC hierarchy--under pressure from the...
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Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Rethinking Diversity After 9/11Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a progressive, modern democracy. Yet despite embracing many of its values, we have at the same time become wary of multiculturalism in...
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Considerations on Western MarxismThis synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It focuses particularly...
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Life After Growth: How the Global Economy Really Works - And Why 200 Years of Growth Are OverAuthor: Tim MorganPublisher: Harriman HousePublished: 11/18/2013Pages: 176Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.50w x 0.75dISBN: 9780857193391About the AuthorMorgan, Tim: - Described in the press as Dr Gloom and Terrifying Tim, Tim Morgan has never avoided controversy, whether he is pointing out the crippling weaknesses...
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